What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.
Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.
You're always striving to play that perfect match.
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
It's always a relaxing time before my match.
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
I know If I score we're going to win the match.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.
This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.
In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.
I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
We need missionaries to match our message.
I'm driven to win every single match.
I generally don't look at the draw. Next match.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.
Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.
Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car.
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.
Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.
Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
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